Funding for Impact
The Youth Fund strategically pools philanthropic, state, tribal and federal funding to provide grants to a cohort of eligible entities to implement either a Career Technical Education project or a Work-Based Learning project focused on youth of color, opportunity youth, young parents and other underserved youth ages 13 through 29.
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Grant amounts will range from $50,000 to $100,000 for one year that can be renewed depending upon available funding.
Career Technical Education (CTE)
Engaging students, families, employers, educational institutions, and communities to create organized educational activities that provide rigorous academic content and technical knowledge that are relevant to students, culturally responsive, and support youth development toward future careers.
CTE programs of study provide students with learning opportunities aligned with career clusters, coaching, mentorship, and supportive relationships to help navigate potential career pathways and transitions from middle school to high school and from high school to postsecondary opportunities.
Work Based Learning (WBL)
Paid, hands-on, experiential learning opportunities where youth and young adults contribute to their community while building job-related and social emotional skills meant to prepare them for career pathway transitions and their educational, vocational or other postsecondary aspirations.
Effective work based learning models provide meaningful mentorship for students, youth, and young adults to foster both workforce readiness and youth leadership development. Training for adults, including employers and mentors, is essential to ensure providers can effectively facilitate ongoing, inclusive, and culturally-relevant structured learning experiences.
Regional Resource Hub Grant
In addition to CTE and WBL grants, one grant will be provided to an eligible entity to serve as a regional resource hub. This regional hub will support the Youth Fund grantee cohort with building regional and local capacity by supporting them with program implementation, collaboration and shared learning and securing public funding.
The regional hub will organize and regularly convene the grantee cohort and support them.
